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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in 7 English top-flight matches on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the largest win at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and the home side argued the defender's first goal should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility rested with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should look at my own role first and my team, but it does show you how a score can change the flow of a game. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Later we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the present losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's display unravelled as the coach introduced several offensive substitutions when chasing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield league fixtures by Forest in the sixties. The last time they lost back-to-back league matches by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in all other game we have been the controlling side and were capable to create opportunities. Recently it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we allow go in.”